Ben PS

Technologist, Serial Creator, and Student of Intelligence—Both Artificial and Eternal

  • The Bite That Changed the World: The Story Behind the Apple Logo

    In 1977, a graphic designer named Rob Janoff sat down to sketch a logo for a small technology company. He had no idea the image he created would one day become one of the most recognized symbols in the world. Today, that logo, a simple apple with a bite taken out, is not just a…

  • When a Machine Writes the Melody: How AI Could Reshape Our Emotional Bond With Music

    A few nights ago, I heard a song by ABBA. Instantly, I was transported. Not in theory, not as a metaphor, but physically somewhere deep in my memory, in a feeling I had forgotten I carried. That’s the power of music. Some songs don’t just play in the background. They are wired into us. They shape…

  • The Silent Restructuring: AI Is Not Coming for Jobs. It’s Already Here.

    It begins, as many shifts do, with silence. No sweeping declarations, no alarm bells, just a series of strategic decisions that start to connect. A thousand roles here, six hundred there, wrapped in corporate language about restructuring, streamlining, or alignment. But look closer and you’ll see the real cause. AI is no longer in testing….

  • What Is Truth in the Age of the Crowd?

    I’ve always wrestled with the idea of truth. Not just in the courtroom sense, where it’s reduced to a binary guilty or not but in the larger, more slippery way that it shapes our lives, our judgments, and the people we choose to elevate or destroy. We like to believe that truth is solid. That…

  • Is AI Turning Us Into System 1 Thinkers?

    And why that might be more dangerous than we realize In a world racing to automate everything from emails to strategy, a deeper question is emerging—quietly, but urgently: Is artificial intelligence training us to think less? To accept answers without challenge?To prefer speed over depth?To outsource judgment? At the center of this concern is a…

  • Galton Board demonstrates the mean curve opportunities for companies

    https://ibenps.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Galton.mp4 The Galton Board demonstrates the Central Limit Theorem by showing how steel balls, as they pass through multiple levels of branching paths, consistently form a bell-shaped curve. This visually illustrates how random processes tend to produce outcomes clustered around the mean, resulting in a normal distribution. 1. Understanding the Galton Board and the Central…